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TIL it is likely that solar eclipses, the way we experience them, are likely unique to earth.

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wLJv7 TIL the Maori in New Zealand had their own dogs, but they couldn't survive breeding with the european dogs so died out within 100 years of Captain cook's first voyage.
4X6gN TIL of Wisdom—the world’s oldest albatross who reunited with the man who first tagged her in 1956. Having spent 40 years apart, Chandler Robbins picked her up by chance among a colony of more than 250,000 nests and discovered she’d also become the oldest albatross to ever give birth to a chick.
x60Gw TIL Ireland holds the world’s highest frequency (~10–11%) of C282Y, a gene variant in hereditary hemochromatosis. Historically, poor diets from poverty, heavy tea, and reliance on potatoes favored iron-boosting. Now, iron-fortified foods can cause overload, leading to harmful excess body iron levels
E1m9x TIL the 1980 American musical fantasy film Xanadu was the inspiration for the original Golden Raspberry Awards (but it lost to Can't Stop The Music).
x61jD TIL a 2017 study found that people who watch porn daily were less likely to get a divorce than those who never watch porn